Ross:
Add one to the final count, counting me twice as one of the above and the
second time to comment on your commenting about the other comments so I can
have the last comment...thus starting another...400 or so comments.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross MacPherson <arm@bc.sympatico.ca>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 9:21 PM
Subject: List Humour
>Question: How many mailing list members does it take to change a light
bulb??
>
>Answer: 442.
>
>1 to change the light bulb and to post to the list that the light bulb has
>been changed:
>
>14 to share similar experiences;
>
>27 to point out the dangers of changing light bulbs;
>
>18 to spell check the posting
>
>35 to flame the spell checkers;
>
>156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb
>discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list;
>
>111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs;
>
>27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs;
>
>14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected
URL's
>
>6 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot
handle
>the light bulb controversy.
>
>Oh yeah, and 6 to post to the list that the guy who sent the light bulb
joke
>has not got his arithmetic correct and that it only takes 416 list members
>to change a light bulb.
>
>
>Cheers, eh!
> Ross
> `66 GT & `47 TC
>
>
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